Reel Asian 2023: ‘Terrestrial Verses’ Shows How Oppression Permeates the Everyday in Iran
A setup that evokes the ending of 'A Separation' by fellow Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, but without the same implications.
A setup that evokes the ending of 'A Separation' by fellow Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, but without the same implications.
Through Okiku and Chuji’s love story, director Junji Sakamoto shits all over the social constructs that continue to bind us.
There's something beautiful about a director reaching the audience and swaying them with the smaller things in life.
Director Carl Joseph Papa delicately crafts a narrative revealing the depths and hidden layers of trauma, and the power of...
The scattershot, episodic structure works well in favour of its humour and gags, but less so conveying the personal journey...
Simultaneously maintaining a universality while offering specific unique nuggets of truth.
Even with ample action and a truly tantalising score, this one doesn’t quite live up to expectations.
While 'Yellow Bus' should be lauded for its respectful approach to very difficult subject matter, it never feels like a...
Hard to watch and even harder to define.
Where Zarrar Kahn succeeds in making 'In Flames' evocative and artful is in the poetry he injects.